Table of Contents

Part One The Social and Economic Structure 1. The Physical Environment 2. Social Structure 3. Economic Development Part Two The Church 4. The Papacy 5. The Crusades 6. Monasticism and the Friars 7. Popular Religion and Heresy Part Three Political Change 8. The Empire 9. The Kingdom of Sicily 10. The Italian City-states 11. The Capetian Monarchy 12. The Kingdom of England 13. The Iberian Kingdoms 14. The States of Eastern and Northern Europe 15. The Crusader States Part Four Perceptions of the World 16. The Medieval World View 17. Intellectual Life 18. Art and Society 19. Western Christendom and the Wider World